IMMUNOASSAY OF INSULIN WITH INSULIN-ANTIBODY PRECIPITATE
IMMUNOASSAY OF INSULIN WITH INSULIN-ANTIBODY PRECIPITATE
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DOI:
10.1042/bj0880137
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
RANDLE, PJ
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作者:
HALES, CN;RANDLE, PJ
Three new methods for immunoassay of insulin with guinea-pig anti-(human insulin) serum, I131-labelled ox insulin and rabbit anti-gamma-globulin serum are described. In method A anti-insulin serum is used to obtain samples of insulin from solutions containing a fixed amount of 1131-labelled insulin mixed with standard or unknown solutions being precipitated with anti-gamma-globulin serum and the precipitate separated by filtration. Assay of radioactivity in the precipitate then permits the determination of insulin by reference to a standard curve. In method B insulin antibody is first precipitated with anti-gamma-globulin serum and the precipitate used to sample insulin mixtures. Method C is a modification of method B in which greater sensitivity is achieved by incubating the precipitated insulin antibody with unlabelled insulin before introducing the I131-labelled insulin. Plasma gamma-globulin can interfere in method A if anti-gamma-globulin serum is not in excess but it cannot interfere in methods B or C. The latter are therefore preferred for the assay of insulin in blood plasma. Methods A and B are in principle based on isotope dilution, but in practice this principle is not obeyed because the amount of insulin bound by antibody varies with the insulin concentration. With 1131-labelled insulin of specific activity 5-20 mc/mg, 6 x 10-6 iu (6 microunits) of human insulin/ml can be detected with these methods. The plasma insulin concentration in 5 normal people was (in microunits/ml) after starvation, 16; and 30, 60 and 150 min. after the oral administration of glucose (50 or 100 g), 64 and 158, 65 and 49, and 22 and 21 respectively.